“The romance has gone,” deadpanned Bill Murray, who has appeared in several Anderson pics, in response to a question about his relationship with the director.

The actor joked about traveling to a faraway place to shoot only a few minutes of footage. “You lose money on the deal,” Murray said.

Tilda Swinton said she hoped that a “Budapest” prequel might one day be made in order that she could do more sexy scenes in a younger version of her character. “I’m very, very, very, very old (in the film),” she said.

Swinton spoke about the importance of the Berlinale in her career — she attended the fest with her debut film, Derek Jarman’s “Caravaggio,” and said that she had asked fest head Dieter Kosslick for a job as a cleaner. “I’ve done pretty much everything else here,” she said.

Swinton will also be in attendance for the Forum screening of Bong Joon Ho’s “Snowpiercer,” a film she described as a “masterpiece.”

Ed Norton joined in the fun suggesting that his “Budapest” costumes reflected Anderson’s uniform fetish. “Wes likes tight trousers and epaulettes on a man,” he said.

Anderson himself jokingly admitted to “more or less plagiarism” of the introduction to Stefan Zweig’s 1939 novel “Beware of Pity.” He said that the Austrian author, who in the 1920s and 1930s was one of the world’s best-known writers, has been unfairly neglected by U.S. readers.